Winners – Montana Federation of Garden Clubs

Garden Club Member of the Year

2026 – Mary Davis, Thumb R Green

PAST WINNERS OF THE MONTANA GARDEN CLUB MEMBER OF THE YEAR AWARD:

2025 – Darlene Skari, Chester and Great Falls Flower Growers Garden
2024 – Phyllis White, Belgrade Bloomers Garden Club
2023 – Patty Schlaeger, Rainbow Garden Club
2022 – Susan Billmayer, Bullhook Blossom
2021 – Joyce Hendricks, Thumb R Green Garden Club
2020 – Jeannie Bennett Great Falls Flower Growers
2019 – Mary Ann Carey Whitehall Garden Club
2018 – Gail Zarr, Great Falls Flower Growers
2017 – Norm DeNeal, Member of the Butte and Anaconda Garden Clubs
2016 – Sue Leferink, Helena Garden Club
2015 – Marialyce Martin, Great Falls Flower Growers
2014 – Glenna Waltee, Whitehall Garden Club
2013 – Lucille Johnson, Rainbow Garden Club
2012 – Rosemary Liston – Great Falls Flower Growers
2010 – Doris Richard, Dillon Garden Club
2009 – Shirley Spildie, Thumb-R-Green Garden Club, Billings
2008 – Luana Maxwell, Great Falls Flower Growers
2007 – Loretta Day, Rainbow Garden Club, Great Falls
2005 – Marie Jones, Lewistown
2004 – Sherry Corneliusen, Glendive
2003 – Margaret Yaw, Gallatin Empire Garden Club, Bozeman
2002 – Elizabeth Kehmeier, Hamilton
2001 – Carol Neil, Missoula
2000 – Cobi Leo, Gallatin Empire Garden Club, Bozeman
1999 – Jim Sadler, Missoula
1998 – Vivian Deck, Great Falls Flower Growers
1997 – Harriet Watkins, Dillon Garden Club
1996 – Madelyn Anderson, Malta Dirt Daubers Garden Club
1995 – Ruth Schwartz, Glendive Garden Club
1994 – Lillian Weston, Chinook Garden Club

Gardener of the Year

2026 – Sharon Wetsch

Past Winners:

2025 – Jim Sadler, Missoula Garden Club
2023 – Barbara Lien, Whitehall Garden Club
2021 – Gary Clark, Missoula Garden Club
2020 Shelly Roseburg
2018 – Creuza Squires, Glendive Garden Club
2017, Susan Andrews of the Gallatin Empire and Belgrade Bloomers Garden Clubs
2016, Adele Hansen of the Dillon Garden Club
2015, Jan Gorman of the Rainbow Garden Club in Great Falls.

State Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl Poster Contest Winners

2026 State Winners!!!

A description of these posters doesn’t do them justice so check page 6 of the Fall 2026 Montana Gardens for their pictures. All winners are from Malta.

Zayla Denny, 3rd grade
Macy Yellow Earrings, 4th grade
Kaylee Tucker, 5th grade